Details
An Austrian walnut serpentine bureau-plat, late 19th century
applied with gilt-metal mounts and decorated with crossbanding, fitted with a central drawer flanked to either side by two drawers, with bombe sides, the projecting legs headed with caryatid clasps and terminating in sabots --51in.(130cm.) wide
applied with gilt-metal mounts and decorated with crossbanding, fitted with a central drawer flanked to either side by two drawers, with bombe sides, the projecting legs headed with caryatid clasps and terminating in sabots --51in.(130cm.) wide
Provenance
Reputedly a gift from Louis II of Bavaria to the Marquis de Baneville (d.1881), diplomat and Embassador to Vienna 1871-1872